Includes object lists and panel text prepared by Michael Hitchock, exhibition brief and introduction, illustrations of cases, and exhibition guide for the Horniman Museum exhibit Patterns of Life Around the World, 1991.
Exhibition records: Horniman Museum: Patterns of Life Around the World: a permanent display in the South Hall Gallery
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Women with dye water, Okeho
Women bringing cassava roots home from their farm
Survey of South East Re-entrant Corner
Outside staircase in old compound
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